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The Collection of Niall Smith

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  • Property from the Collection of Niall Smith
Lot 92

Miscellaneous Group of Art Books

Estimate: $200 - $400
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Including: Human Concern / Personal Torment by Robert Doty, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969; Love and Joy About Letters by Ben Shaw, Grossman Publishers, 1963; Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women by Julia Margaret Cameron, The Hogarth Press, 1973; La Collezione edited by Peggy Guggenheim, for the Guggenheim Collection; Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West 1860–1885 by Weston J. Naef, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975; Motif 8 edited by Ruari McLean, Shenval Press Ltd London, Winter 1961; Je suis le cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso by Arnold Glimcher, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996, first edition in original plastic wrapping; Claes Oldenburg: Drawings and Prints with an introduction by Gene Baro, Chelsea House Publishers, 1969; Raoul Duffey 1877–1953, a catalogue from Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc. and Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996; Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines by François Bucher and Josef Albers, Yale University Press, 1961; Picasso: An American Tribute edited by John Richardson, Public Education Association, 1962; Mapplethorpe, 1993 Diary photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Neues Publishing Co., 1992; Robert Mapplethorpe with photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, translated by Eric Wilfert, Stedelijk Museum, 1988, signed and dated 1988, in German; Menschenbilder from the Komitee Därstädler Gerprach, 1968, in German; Sweet Pea: A Black Girl Growing Up in the Rural South by Jill Kermentz, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., 1969, first edition; and A View of One's Own: Three Women Photographers in Rome photographs by Esther Boise Van Denman, Georgina Masson, and Jeanette Montgomery Barron, American Academy in Rome, 2016 (16).

Condition

All with wear consistent with age and use. Individual condition reports not available for this lot.

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